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antlike

/ ˈæntˌlaɪk /

adjective

  1. of or like an ant or ants
  2. characterized by scurrying activity or teeming restlessness


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Example Sentences

They’re also capable of pooling their collective strength to pick up and carry the building-sized pieces of fruit scattered across PNF-404 with antlike efficiency.

The girl chose to ignore him and withdrew her gaze to the stage, still creeping antlike toward the hills.

In one of the cases, opposite me, there's one of the Martian creatures—a big, antlike fellow.

They were crawling antlike up a mountain spur that rose dizzily on their right; on the left they overhung a bottomless pit.

Antlike, men were swarming everywhere bent upon changing, and yet they changed nothing.

The little safari for the third time crawled its antlike way across the immensities of the veldt.

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